The decision of Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane to drop the investigation and potential prosecution of Philadelphia Democrats who were recorded accepting cash, money orders, or jewelry certainly seems suspicious. According to news reports, investigators collected over 400 hours of audio and video of five Democrats, including four state lawmakers, before Kane, also a Democrat, secretly killed the investigation last fall. When confronted with this troubling story by the Philadelphia Inquirer, Kane cited racism and mismanagement in the investigation, but the detailed descriptions of the recordings certainly seem to indicate that the payments were made.

Kane’s reaction to reports about her decision went from bad to worse. At first, she complained that white men were attacking her. . . .

But Kane, apparently frustrated by continuing scrutiny of her decision, has now escalated further, hiring counsel and suggesting that if the Inquirer continues to pursue the story, she would start suing people!

Good grief. You know, maybe we should exclusively fill important jobs with white men, since they’re apparently the only ones society can hold accountable.

The problem is there aren't enough of these operations nationwide. 25 years ago in South Carolina, a prominent lobbyist was busted by the FBI trying to buy a kilo of cocaine. Eerily reminiscent of their deal with con man Mel Weinberg a decade earlier, they set Cobb up to offer bribes to legislators, ostensibly to bring off-track betting to the state. It was called Operation Lost Trust and netted 27 convictions including 17 state legislators - including the majority of the then-serving black legislators.

ABSCAM had been racking up members of Congress right and left and was gaining momentum when Attorney General Griffin Bell (Democrat) shut it down the minute he found out about it.

We need more such operations. What better way to weed out the overtly crooked people in government than by just offering them a pile of cash?

It's fascinating that the Democrats seem to have poisoned the well for any future black candidates for high office, by nominating or appointing so many transparently corrupt and/or incompetent blacks. I wonder if this is an accident.

In unusually barbed criticism of a fellow prosecutor and fellow Democrat, Philadelphia's district attorney rebuked state Attorney General Kathleen G. Kane on Friday, saying she had needlessly killed a solid corruption investigation - and besmirched the prosecutors who built the case.

"Good grief. You know, maybe we should exclusively fill important jobs with white men, since they’re apparently the only ones society can hold accountable."Black, hispanic, and female conservatives will also be held accountable. The only completely unaccountable class is black, hispanic, and women dems.

For white, heterosexual males, living in culture defined by reverse-racism, homophilia, and misandry has its downsides. But it’s a source of pride, or should be, that even our detractors see us as the only grownups in the room.

At some point, the electorate will ask us to step in and clean up the mess. And we will.

File this under “the more things change, the more they remain the same.”

Even if her accusation of racism and mismanagement is true, how does that justify the shutting down of an investigation that was finding criminal activity? It might justify replacing the chief investigator, perhaps the whole staff. But shutting down the whole investigation looks like it wasn't the motivation and capability of the investigators that she had a problem with.

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